Subj : Re: One more?
To   : STEVEN VAN VLIET
From : JIM STAAL
Date : Sun Oct 28 2001 04:14 am

-=> STEVEN VAN VLIET wrote to JIM STAAL <=-

 

 SVV> Hey, that much of innocent humanity dying "in my face" devastated me.

Yep. Wilbur called and told me a plane had crashed into the WTC. I turned
on the TV and about 5 minutes after, I saw (what looked to me to be like a
corporate jet) the second plane hit. Then watched the whole thing evolve from
there.

I think watching the countless re-reruns of it affected me more than watching
it as it unfolded live.
 
 SVV> I thought seriously of going to counseling for a while there, but I
 SVV> never
 SVV> had the nerve.

Ah, it isn't any harder than announcing to a room full of drunks that you're
an alcoholic. I mean...the whole world's nutz to some degree or other. :-)

What's embarrassing is having the cops cordone off each end of your block
and have ten of them surrounding you in the street (in broad daylight) just
out of arm's length and coax you to take your place on the gurney as the
ambulance backs up with the doors open (beep beep beep). And then having
the driver stop and come back and beat the s**t out of you, slamming his
knee into your chest repeatedly as you are strapped down, all the while
yelling, 'Not so bad now, are you, tough guy?' and arrive at the
hospital with a black eye and bruised ribs. :-) His partner, who 
was riding in the back, blocked the view from the cop who was following us.
When he finally got out and came up to ask if anything was wrong, the guy 
stopped beating on me...and I stopped laughing in his face. :p I made a note
about it when I paid the $500 ambulance bill.

 
 SVV> The "go about life as usual" governmental bullshit had/has NOTHING to
 SVV> do with my current tack. Nothing at all. THEIR intent is to keep the
 SVV> economy going, which equals THEIR self interest. SCREW THEM! I'm into
 SVV> MY and my wife's self interest and in my self interest in loving my
 SVV> fellow Man that is my impetus...not the economy.

 Sounds like a good track to follow.


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